Publications
Identification, Delivery and Empowerment Application (IDEA): An FAO ecosystem of applications to power livelihoods and agricultural assistance in food crisis contexts
03/2025
The Identification, Delivery and Empowerment Application (IDEA) is a digital ecosystem of applications developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to ensure the protection and secure management of beneficiary data, and delivery and tracking of assistance.
Sweden’s contribution to FAO’s emergencies operations, March 2025
03/2025
Sweden has reinforced its commitment to global food security with a total contribution of SEK 73 million (USD 7.23 million) to FAO’s emergencies operations in 2025.
The Sudan: Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2025
03/2025
After nearly two years of unrelenting conflict, the Sudan remains the world’s largest internal displacement crisis. Humanitarian needs continue to escalate at a staggering rate, with one in two people acutely food insecure.
Food insecurity among internally displaced people in Somalia: Trends analysis over time (2017–2024)
03/2025
Somalia’s food crisis has persisted for over three decades. Ongoing conflict continues to have devastating impacts, driving food insecurity and displacement.
Mozambique: DIEM – Data in Emergencies Monitoring brief, round 7
03/2025
This Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring) brief shares the results of the seventh-round assessment conducted in September and November 2024 in Mozambique.
Pakistan: Project Highlights - OSRO/PAK/021/JPN
03/2025
The Government of Japan contributed USD 6 481 481 to restore the livelihoods and food security of 74 807 flood-affected farming and livestock-keeping households (523 649 people) in Balochistan and Sindh provinces of Pakistan.
Afghanistan: DIEM – Data in Emergencies Monitoring brief, round 9
03/2025
This Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring) brief shares the results of the ninth-round assessment conducted in September 2024 in Afghanistan.
Subregional West Africa: Project Highlights - OSRO/SFW/007/GER
03/2025
The Federal Government of Germany, contributed USD 3 million, through the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities – Anticipatory Action window, to FAO's project entitled ''Anticipatory action for flood risk in the Sahel''.
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Urgent call for assistance
03/2025
In eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, intensified violence pepetrated by non-state armed groups is occurring at the start of harvests and of the lean season, disrupting agricultural production and the supply chain, and leading to food shortages and soaring prices.
South Sudan: Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2025
03/2025
One in two people in South Sudan will experience food insecurity during the country’s lean season (April–July). Climate shocks, conflict and insecurity, economic downturn and the spillover effects of the conflict in the Sudan are the key drivers of this crisis.
Bangladesh: DIEM – Data in Emergencies Monitoring brief, round 11
03/2025
This Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring) brief shares the results of the eleventh-round assessment conducted in September and October 2024 in Bangladesh.
Syrian Arab Republic: Emergency and Recovery Plan of Action 2025–2027 - Living document (as of 1 March 2025)
03/2025
After nearly 14 years of conflict, the Syrian Arab Republic faces a severe humanitarian crisis, with an estimated 16.7 million people in need of assistance and 14.5 million food insecure.
Mali: Emergency and Resilience plan 2025-2028 - Plan overview (In French)
03/2025
This is an overview of FAO's Emergency and Resilience Plan 2025-2028 which is designed to support vulnerable communities towards sustainable resilience through interventions tailored to their specific levels of vulnerability.
Yemen: Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2025
03/2025
Conflict, economic crisis and recurrent climate shocks continue to erode rural livelihoods in Yemen. Dependent on imports for almost all of its wheat and rice, Yemen is highly vulnerable to supply disruptions.
Mali: Emergency and Resilience Plan, 2025-2028 (In French)
03/2025
FAO's Emergency and Resilience Plan 2025-2028 is designed to support vulnerable communities towards sustainable resilience through interventions tailored to their specific levels of vulnerability.
Lebanon: DIEM – Data in Emergencies Monitoring brief, round 8
03/2025
This Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring) brief shares the results of the eighth-round assessment conducted in November and December 2024 in Lebanon.
Haiti: DIEM – Data in Emergencies Monitoring brief, round 6
03/2025
This Data in Emergencies Monitoring (DIEM-Monitoring) brief shares the results of the sixth-round assessment conducted in June and July 2024 in Haiti.
Guatemala: Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2025
03/2025
Guatemala’s humanitarian crisis is mainly driven by climate-induced disruptions to agricultural production and increased human mobility.
Niger: Humanitarian Response Plan 2025
03/2025
The Niger continues to face a complex humanitarian crisis, mainly due to civil insecurity, severe flooding and spillover effects from the conflicts in Burkina Faso, Mali and Nigeria, including cross-border population movements.
The Plurinational State of Bolivia: Project Highlights - OSRO/BOL/058/BEL (In French)
03/2025
Anticipatory actions to mitigate the impact of agricultural drought on the Bolivian Altiplano Belgium, through the SFERA anticipatory actions window, funded USD 344 412 to FAO's project entitled "Anticipatory actions to mitigate the impacts of agricultural drought on the Bolivian Altiplano".